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[ron]

I was wondering whether it's possible, using a tracker, to set up an instrument in such a way that when you trigger a sample, it triggers at the beginning, and then carries on until it reaches the second of two defined points, thereafter looping between those points indefinitely. I think this would be a really useful thing to have. Anyone know whether any tracker program can do this? Thanks

[Din]

Unless I misunderstand the question, that sounds like a basic sample loop where playback starts at the beginning and continues until it hits the loop end where it returns to the loop start and continues looping until there's a noteoff/cut/fade.

If that's not what you're talking about, what are some more details in what you're looking for?  For example, Impulse Tracker (I love IT ) has sample loops, sample sustain loops (very cool stuff), instrument loops, and instrument sustain loops (also very cool).  Most modern trackers will support both types of loops using forward and ping-pong looping.

[sampledamage]

I was wondering whether it's possible, using a tracker, to set up an instrument in such a way that when you trigger a sample, it triggers at the beginning, and then carries on until it reaches the second of two defined points, thereafter looping between those points indefinitely. I think this would be a really useful thing to have. Anyone know whether any tracker program can do this? Thanks

yep Fasttracker2

[rompy]

I imagine guess that Psycle would, but that is an interesting idea you have.

[fingersoup]

Every modern tracker including Psycle does this.  in psycle, go to Wave Editor, then select your portion of sample.  Then set loop to selection.

you can then modify your envelopes to dictate how to finish your note when a new note is played, or when a note-off is played.